I agree with the drawbacks of using the most populated city as a proxy
for a time zone.
In this case, what's wrong with calling the tz zone Asia/China and being
done with it?
++PLS
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From: tz-request(a)elsie.nci.nih.gov [mailto:tz-request@elsie.nci.nih.gov]
On Behalf Of Zhe Su
Sent: Saturday, April 29, 2006 7:06 AM
To: Paul Eggert
Cc: tz(a)lecserver.nci.nih.gov
Subject: Re: Some modifications of China related timezone info.
Hi,
And in my opinion, using the rule of using most populous location to
identify each region is not a generic way for every countries. IMO, we
should use different rules for different countries to fit their local
circumstances. For China (or more exactly, PRC), it's apparently not
suitable to use the population rule. Because the most populous
location in China is Chongqing, which is belong to Sichuan province,
the most populous province of China. But Chongqing is far less
developed than Shanghai and Beijing, so it's far less popular than
Beijing and Shanghai.
So for China, I'd prefer to use the most important and popular
location, Beijing, the capital of China to identify our unique
timezone.
Regards
James Su
On 4/29/06, Zhe Su <james.su(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> I still can't agree with you. It's harmless to add "Asia/Beijing".
> And China now uses only one timezone, which is called officially
> "China Standard Time" and indeed it's known as Beijing Time.
> Now we have five timezones for China in asia/zone.tab:
> "Asia/Shanghai", "Asia/Chongqing", "Asia/Urumqi", "Asia/Harbin",
> "Asia/Kashgar". But they are known as historic timezones (according to
> comments in asia file). After 1949, the establishing of People's
> Republic of China, we uses only one timezone, which is called "Beijing
> Time" or "China Standard Time" officially.
> So if you think we should choose a most populous city of China to
> represent the only one "China Standard Time", that is Chongqing rather
> than Shanghai, because Chongqing has more than 27 million population.
> But, I still think using "Asia/Beijing" to represent the only timezone
> used in Peoples Republic of China is the most reasonable way.
>
> Regards
> James Su
>
> On 4/29/06, Paul Eggert <eggert(a)cs.ucla.edu> wrote:
> > "Zhe Su" <james.su(a)gmail.com> writes:
> >
> > > So, is it ok to just add "Asia/Beijing" into the database along
with
> > > "Asia/Shanghai"? So that people can choose whatever they want.
> >
> > For now I'd rather not do that, for the reasons already mentioned.
> >
>
